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slug
1 of 4noun (1)
ˈsləg 
1
: sluggard
2
: a lump, disk, or cylinder of material (such as plastic or metal): such as
a(1)
: a musket ball
(2)
: bullet
b
: a piece of metal roughly shaped for subsequent processing
c
: a $50 gold piece
d
: a disk for insertion in a slot machine
especially : one used illegally instead of a coin
3
: any of numerous chiefly terrestrial pulmonate gastropods (order Stylommatophora) that are found in most parts of the world where there is a reasonable supply of moisture and are closely related to the land snails but are long and wormlike and have only a rudimentary shell often buried in the mantle or entirely absent
4
: a smooth soft larva of a sawfly or moth that creeps like a mollusk
5
a
: a quantity of liquor drunk in one swallow
b
: a detached mass of fluid (such as water vapor or oil) that causes impact (as in a circulating system)
6
a
: a strip of metal thicker than a printer's lead
b
: a line of type cast as one piece
c
: a usually temporary type line serving to instruct or identify
7
: the gravitational unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system to which a pound force can impart an acceleration of one foot per second per second and which is equal to the mass of an object weighing 32 pounds
slug
2 of 4verb (1)
slugged; slugging
transitive verb
1
: to add a printer's slug to
2
: to drink in gulps —often used with down
slug
3 of 4noun (2)
: a heavy blow especially with the fist
slug
4 of 4verb (2)
slugged; slugging
transitive verb
1
: to strike heavily with or as if with the fist or a bat
2
: fight sense 4b —usually used in the phrase slug it out
Synonyms
Noun (1)
- couch potato
- deadbeat
- do-nothing
- drone
- idler
- layabout
- lazybones
- loafer
- lotus-eater
- slouch
- slugabed
- sluggard
Noun (2)
- bang
- bash
- bat
- beat
- belt
- biff
- blow
- bop
- box
- buffet
- bust
- chop
- clap
- clip
- clout
- crack
- cuff
- dab
- douse [British]
- fillip
- hack
- haymaker
- hit
- hook
- knock
- larrup [dialect]
- lash
- lick
- pelt
- pick
- plump
- poke
- pound
- punch
- rap
- slam
- slap
- smack
- smash
- sock
- spank
- stinger
- stripe
- stroke
- swat
- swipe
- switch
- thud
- thump
- thwack
- wallop
- welt
- whack
- wham
- whop
- whap
Verb (2)
- bang
- bash
- bat
- belt
- biff
- bludgeon
- bob
- bonk
- bop
- box
- bust
- clap
- clip
- clobber
- clock
- clout
- crack
- hammer
- hit
- knock
- nail
- paste
- pound
- punch
- rap
- slam
- slap
- slog
- smack
- smite
- sock
- strike
- swat
- swipe
- tag
- thump
- thwack
- wallop
- whack
- whale
- zap
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English slugge, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect slugga to walk sluggishly
Noun (2)
perhaps from slug to load with slugs
First Known Use
Noun (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (1)
1912, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (2)
1830, in the meaning defined above
Verb (2)
circa 1861, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing slug
Kids Definition
slug 1 of 4
noun
ˈsləg
: a wormlike animal living mostly on land that is a mollusk related to the snails but that has an undeveloped shell or none at all
slug
2 of 4noun
1
: bullet
2
: a metal disk often used in place of a coin
slug
3 of 4noun
: a hard blow especially with the fist
slug
4 of 4verb
slugged; slugging
: to hit hard with the fist or with a bat
slugging
verb
as in hitting
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner she got so angry that she slugged the back of the chair and knocked it over Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- hitting
- punching
- knocking
- slapping
- smacking
- slamming
- banging
- whacking
- pounding
- swiping
- striking
- clapping
- batting
- kicking
- cracking
- clipping
- bashing
- thumping
- hammering
- nailing
- shoving
- bopping
- pushing
- tapping
- licking
- bludgeoning
- socking
- swatting
- jabbing
- boxing
- slogging
- belting
- clobbering
- poking
- zapping
- bobbing
- stabbing
- walloping
- clouting
- busting
- rapping
- smiting
- bumping
- biffing
- flicking
- chopping
- bonking
- clocking
- thwacking
- tagging
- pasting
- stroking
- beating
- whaling
- pummeling
- battering
- mauling
- slashing
- pelting
- dumping
- jostling
- mangling
- peppering
- pummelling
- roughing
- lashing
- butting
- cuffing
- stamping
- hanging one on
- scuffing
- whipping
- lambasting
- buffeting
- prodding
- bunging
- drubbing
- sapping
- bunting
- creaming
- thrashing
- flailing
- clubbing
- lacing
- switching
- spearing
- pommelling
- conking
- leveling
- decking
- kneeing
- pommeling
- flogging
- cudgeling
- skulling
- felling
- knocking down
- sledgehammering
- braining
- sucker punching
- flooring
- sledging
- beaning
- cudgelling
- levelling
- rabbit-punching
- caning
- bowling (down or over)
